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6.4.2 The role of education

The authors controlled for a number of maternal characteristics including age, years
of completed education, and cognitive ability measured with a comprehension test
from the W-J Achievement Test - Revised. The results indicated the particular
importance of mothers’ cognitive ability in predicting children’s cognitive ability,
highlighting that its total effect was larger than that from family income or other
mediators. Maternal education was not found to be significant when mothers’
cognitive ability was added into the model. Rather than negating the possible effects
of maternal education, this result is likely to reflect the collinearity between cognitive
ability and completed education.

6.5. Economic well-being and children’s social adjustment: The
role of family process in an ethnically diverse, low income
sample

6.5.1 Overview of the paper

Mistry et al. (2002) used a family economic stress model linking economic well-being
to child well-being in a sample of elementary school age children to assess whether
the proposed mediational processes by which economic hardship affects child well-
being also held true for an ethnically diverse population. Their model showing the
direct and indirect influences of economic hardship and perceived economic pressure
is shown below in Box 14.

Box 14: Conceptual model

Source: Mistry, Vandewater, Huston, & McLoyd, 2002, 937

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